<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Christina:</div><div><br></div><div>1. First thanks to you, Chef Andres, and all at “wck” for all your cooking work - and especially in Gaza</div><div><br></div><div>2, I see you have good working relations with Anera - whose website has shut down, but i recommend for pictures of the cooking need</div><div><br></div><div>3. I also found good cooking pictures at aljazeera. And I will continue looking for other stove use today in Gaza.</div><div><div style="display: block;"><div style="-webkit-user-select: all; -webkit-user-drag: element; display: inline-block;" class="apple-rich-link" draggable="true" role="link" data-url="https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/11/13/photos-palestinians-face-food-water-shortages-in-southern-gaza"><a style="border-radius:10px;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;display:block;-webkit-user-select:none;width:300px;user-select:none;-webkit-user-modify:read-only;user-modify:read-only;overflow:hidden;text-decoration:none;" class="lp-rich-link" rel="nofollow" href="https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/11/13/photos-palestinians-face-food-water-shortages-in-southern-gaza" dir="ltr" role="button" draggable="false" width="300"><table style="table-layout:fixed;border-collapse:collapse;width:300px;background-color:#E5E6E9;font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class="lp-rich-link-emailBaseTable" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="300"><tbody><tr><td vertical-align="center" align="center"><img style="width:300px;filter:brightness(0.97);height:225px;" height="225" draggable="false" class="lp-rich-link-mediaImage" alt="AP23317468467657-1699886423.jpeg" src="cid:AFE180BA-8F8B-4B9E-829E-1E39998740B3"></td></tr><tr><td vertical-align="center"><table bgcolor="#E5E6E9" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="300" style="font-family:-apple-system, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;table-layout:fixed;background-color:rgba(229, 230, 233, 1);" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:8px 0px 8px 0px;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStackItem"><div style="max-width:100%;margin:0px 16px 0px 16px;overflow:hidden;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:500;font-size:12px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-topCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/11/13/photos-palestinians-face-food-water-shortages-in-southern-gaza" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#272727" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.847059);">Photos: Palestinians face food, water shortages in southern Gaza</font></a></div><div style="word-wrap:break-word;font-weight:400;font-size:11px;overflow:hidden;text-overflow:ellipsis;text-align:left;" class="lp-rich-link-captionBar-textStack-bottomCaption-leading"><a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2023/11/13/photos-palestinians-face-food-water-shortages-in-southern-gaza" style="text-decoration: none" draggable="false"><font color="#808080" style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039);">aljazeera.com</font></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div></div></div><div><br></div>4. I have added the additional “biochar.io” website with (maybe 100 times as many biochar enthusiasts as the stoves site you started with) to offer help (including stove fans - but much more)</div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>It was good to see that although you are expert in gas stoves, your question relates to a pellet stove.(pellets always being biomass)</div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The biochar world of course has many proponents of pellets, but I’m sure you are looking for all sorts of cooking help. The cook stove pictures I saw in the aljazeera site can be much improved upon in every way. Including what you have heard from Kirk and Joshua - as well as Kevin. </div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I believe Kevin’s all-brick design Is far and away the easiest and most satisfaory you can find. Besides bricks by the millions that must be lying around after the bombings, I’m sure there is plenty of splintered (and dry) wood ready to be used both for the really big cook-pots I see - as well as for single family cooking - that all should be producing charcoal. I saw one photo demoloishing a tree - that we should try to avoid.</div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>In Gaza, there can be a really great use of charcoal for water purification. I hope enough small wood around from the bombings to avoid combusting the produced char, but that product char is also itself combustible. I assume the present main use of biochar for soil improvement is not appropriate here. And the same for carbon dioxide removal. But I still think Gaza users would find it much better to make charcoal than not. Much cleaner and much more efficient stoves..</div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">5. No-one has yet offered to be the stove “conduit” you are looking for - but I’d be glad to try. A group called “IBI”. (International Biochar Initiative) had an annual conference last week with 400 attendees. I guess there were quite a few speaking Arable - and I know the IBI group well if you would prefer speakers of both Arabic and biochar. </div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span> I know of no technology that is more appropriate to answering your request below than char-making stoves, Again thanks for your and wck’s work</div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Ron</div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 14, 2023, at 2:00 PM, Christina Espinosa <c_espinosa1@u.pacific.edu> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div>Hi Listserv!<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have a team in Egypt working on a quick manufacturing design to be able to send into our cooking partners in Gaza ASAP<span style="background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. Rules are strict on what gets let in and there is almost no fuel inside Gaza for cooking. They currently have a pellet design with a fan. I was hoping that someone might be willing to jump on a call with me or the team there ASAP to try and troubleshoot some problems they have in the design. This is where they are at now. But they need to be able to make these ASAP and all of the large manufacturers have long turn arounds and shipping costs. </span><div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please let me know if anyone would be able to help.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">You can email me directly at <a href="mailto:Christina@wck.org">Christina@wck.org</a></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Best,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Christina </div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Director of Clean Cooking</div><div dir="auto" style="font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration: none; background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">World Central Kitchen</div></div><div><img alt="IMG_1048.jpeg" src="cid:18bcfa06fc1908727ea3"></div><div></div><div><img alt="IMG_1049.jpeg" src="cid:18bcfa0ff62db314ceb5"></div></div><div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto"><img alt="1893656c-695f-447f-a1c5-b8b2458a98d0.jpeg" src="cid:18bcf9c6d4b95adecf81"><div><img alt="0f298d7c-2a4d-4904-9341-f05d3e5599cc.jpeg" src="cid:18bcf9cb61830c7451e2"></div></div></div>
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